Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Christine Presents: Once and Forever

The authors will be awarding an eBook copy of "Once and Forever" to five randomly drawn commenters during the tour, and a Grand Prize of a $25 Amazon GC to one randomly drawn commenter during the tour.

From five
compelling authors, five original novellas which will make you laugh and cry,
and believe in a love that once found will last forever. Meet a duke, a
psychic, a bodyguard and a professor…and one "guardian fairy" in
absorbing stories ranging from regency and contemporary romance to paranormal
and women's fiction.

Playing for Keeps by Mary Blayney

Actress Kendall
Marshall is determined to get an autograph for her sick sister from famous TV
personality Mike O’Hara, the Oprah Winfrey of sports. In the process she meets
his brother, security consultant Steve Marshall, lands a job on O’Hara’s show
and gets in the way of a man set on causing big trouble. As the stalkers
attacks escalate, Steve and Kendall are thrown together and find it impossible
to ignore the chemistry between them.

The Princess & the Pinot by Elaine
Fox

When a beautiful
woman shows up at the Vineyard Inn, wine manager Kim is certain she’s been sent
by fate for the inn’s owner, Cooper. Self-effacing to a fault, Kim knows she
can’t hold a candle to Principessa Bella, who also seems to know even more
about wine than Kim herself, but her heart has belonged to Cooper since they
shared one kiss as teenagers.

While Prin
sweeps easily into the job of sommelier at the renowned inn, Kim is afraid Prin
will sweep just as surely into Cooper’s arms if she doesn’t do something about
it. Can she tell Cooper how she feels without losing even his friendship?

Kim is willing
to try except for one problem: she’s almost certainly losing her mind. Or is
that belching, swearing, smoking, farting fairy – who claims to be trying to
help her – real?

Duets by Emelle Gamble

Duets offers
alternating looks into the lives of two women who would seem to have little or
nothing in common.

Screen star
Molly Harper is on the verge of marrying a man who has swept her off her feet,
thought perhaps hasn’t swept all her feelings for her first love away. Anne
Sullivan, happily married for twenty-five years, is fighting to hold onto the
man she loves, and hold off a confrontation that could shatter her family’s
image of what they are.

Duets confronts
a past secret that ties these two women’s lives together, just as chance events
turn Molly and Anne’s worlds upside down.

Never and Forever by Lavinia Kent

Never and
Forever is the beginning of the love story of two people who shouldn’t belong
together. Molly, Miss Wilkes, runs an
employment agency helping women of quality find positions perfected suited to
their characters. Although her father
held the title of Earl for just over a week before his death, Molly has never
wanted to be a lady. She knows her place
in this world – and it is not at the center of society.

The Duke of
Radford also knows his place in this world – and it’s above everybody
else’s. He cannot imagine a world without
all the privilege and power that comes from being Radford. He’s had foreign princesses and heiresses
dangled before him for years. Why would
he ever have interest in a simple woman who doesn’t even understand that she
should want to be a duchess?

Can these two
overcome the obstacles of their own beliefs and realize that love can make all
things possible?

Never and
forever are both a very long time. Where
will their love fit?

The Psychic Detective by Evie Owens

Psychic Martin
Sterling doesn't trust cops--and the feeling is mutual. Detective Erin Healy
needs more than a ghost story to save her job and reputation. Her partner is
dead, a million dollars in drugs and money is missing, and all the evidence
points to her.

Can a sexy
psychic and a by the book cop, trapped between the living and the dead, unearth
the truth? Or will a cold-blooded killer get away with it all...

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

(Contemporary
Paranormal Romance – Evie Owens The Psychic Detective)

For
a long moment he just stared back at her, into her, somehow, and Erin wondered
what it would be like to believe. In psychics and magic and...to really believe
in anything, other than the life you were living. She had police in her blood,
though. If you couldn't see it, feel it, taste it, smell it--if you couldn't
measure it in some way--it wasn't real.

No
matter how much you might wish it was.

But
how did he know the girl was pregnant? She wasn't showing yet.

Then
she remembered he'd been watching them long before he joined them at the table,
and in her mind's eye she saw the way Mitra's hands closed over her abdomen.
Protecting and comforting. You didn't have to be psychic to figure that out.
Just observant.

And
this guy was definitely observant.

Most
con men were.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

Mary Blayney:

NY Times Best Selling author
Mary Blayney’s first two romances were contemporaries published by Silhouette
Books. Since 2000 she has been writing regency set historical novels and
novellas for Kensington, Bantam and Berkley. Returning to the contemporary
market with her novella in ONCE AND FOREVER, Mary hopes to continue to tell
stories set in both the regency and the 21st century.

Married to a retired Coast
Guard officer, Mary has lived all over the US from Alaska to Puerto Rico, but
is now settled near Annapolis, Maryland within sight of the Chesapeake Bay. Her
life close to the Coast Guard and its mission to search and rescue, has
convinced her that life is best lived with joy, love and a generous heart.
Those convictions are what she most wantS to share with her readers. Family
will always play a strong part in her books since she believes that family
relationships are as fundamental as the love between a man and a woman.

“One More Kiss is a
delightful combination of social comedy, slight mystery, and sweet romance.
It’s a thoroughly charming novel, well worth a read.” . . .(NY Journal of
Books)

MIRROR MIRROR anthology, “If
Wishes Were Horses”

Debut at #3 New York Times
Mass Market List October 2013

“Blayney's wish-granting
coin entwines a pair of lonely adventure seekers in romance beyond their lives
as a servant and a sergeant in her charming 1816 fantasy, If Wishes Were
Horses. . . .” (Publishers Weekley, October 2013)

NY Times Best Selling author
Elaine Fox began her career writing time-travel romances, such as Rita-finalist
Traveler, and Impostor (both now available as e-books on Amazon and Barnes
& Noble), then added historicals to the mix. After six books with Leisure
Books, she moved to Avon to begin writing contemporary romances. Her first,
Maybe Baby, hit the USA Today Bestseller list and eight more novels and four
novellas followed, with several of them also reaching the USA Today list.

Most recently she
participated in the anthology Mirror, Mirror from Berkley Publishers, which
debuted at #3 on the New York Times Bestseller list.

Elaine lives just outside of
Washington, D.C., with a small Cuban dog and a lovely Argentinean man. Elaine
is trying to learn Spanish.

Review Quotes:

Praise for Beauty, Sleeping,
in the anthology MIRROR, MIRROR:

“Fox introduces a charming
ghostly television reporter to the woman who buys his haunted house in Beauty,
Sleeping, a clever, turned-on-its-head version of Sleeping Beauty.” Publishers
Weekly

Praise for HELLO, DOGGY!:

“HELLO, DOGGY! by Elaine Fox
is a laugh-out-loud, character-driven story that will captivate readers from
their first introduction to the lovable pooch and her dreamy owner.” Fresh
Fiction

Praise for BEWARE OF DOUG:

“A must read.” Fresh Fiction

Links:

Email: authorelainefox@aol.com

Website: http://www.elainefox.com

FaceBook: www.facebook.com/AuthorElaineFox

Emelle Gamble

Emelle Gamble was a writer
at an early age, bursting with the requisite childhood stories of
introspection. These evolved into bad teen poetry and worse short stories. She
took her first stab at full length fiction in an adult education writing class
when her kids were in bed. As M.L.
Gamble, she published several romantic suspense novels with Harlequin. She has
contracted with Soul Mate Publishing for Secret Sister, published in the summer
of 2013, and Dating Cary Grant, a Spring 2014 release.

Molly Harper will be
released by Posh Publishing in December, 2013.

Emelle lives in suburban
Washington D.C. with her husband, ‘Phil-the-fist’, her hero of thirty
years, and two orange cats, Lucy and
Bella. These girls, like all good villains, have their reasons for misbehaving.
Her daughter, Olivia, and son, Allen, are happily launched on their own and
contributing great things to society, their mother’s fondest wish.

Review Quotes:

Praise for Secret Sister

“Along with being a very
unique and captivating plot, SECRET SISTER offers a shocking turn of the
paranormal kind. So if you are the type of person that wants ordinary romance
in a book, you won't find that here. This is a story of friendship, family, and
most of all, true love and what those things can mean. I cannot recommend
SECRET SISTER strongly enough… “ Fresh Fiction, Fresh Reviews

"If you're looking for
a typical women's fiction/romance, don't look here... this story has a twist of
the paranormal that will have you willingly stretching your belief in order to
enjoy the plot. Emelle Gamble has created a story that will tear your heart
out." Long and Short Reviews

Links:

Email: emellegamble@aol.com

Website: http:/www.EmelleGamble.com

FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/Emelle.Gamble

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EmelleGamble

Goodreads:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7123746.Emelle_Gamble

Secret Sister http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Sister-ebook/dp/B00DUL4LQA

Evie Owens

Evie Owens was born in
Japan, but grew up on a dairy farm in Upper Michigan. She's waited tables and
tended bar, which makes her a very good tipper, but writing is her passion.
She's thrilled to be included in this anthology with some of her favorite
authors.

These days, Evie lives in
Maryland while her two fabulous daughters and one glorious granddaughter live
too far away. Leaving her no alternative but to turn to a life of crazy cat
ladyness (except for the "cat" and the "ladyness" parts).

Lavinia Kent never knew that
most people don’t make up stories in their heads to pass the time. She still
has a hard time understanding how those who don’t survive the doctor’s waiting
room or a grocery store line without another world to escape into.

Growing up in New York state
and Wisconsin, Lavinia graduated from Wellesley College and, for reasons that
are still not quite clear, also holds an MBA from Washington, D.C.’s Georgetown
University. Lavinia has remained in Washington ever since.

She lives under the gracious
(and usually benign) rule of Erzsebet, the cat, along with her husband, three
children, one cockatiel, two rats, and Erzsebet’s younger, subordinate tomcat,
otherwise known as The Golden Snitch.

As the mother of three,
Lavinia finds “leisure time” to be ever-elusive, but when she is not reading
romance novels, she watches far too much HBO and reality television. It must
also be noted that she has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Buffy and
Doctor Who.

Lavinia was a two-term
president of the Washington Romance Writers and is proud to be a four-time
Romance Writers of America Golden Heart nominee.

She was excited (and humbled
and thrilled and over the moon) about the publication of her first historical
Romance, A Talent for Sin, in June 2009. Her second book, Bound by Temptation,was
released in February 2010. Her third
book, Taken by Desire, is available in December 2010.

5 comments:

Thank you so much for having us. It's great fun to share all of our different worlds with you. I loved having the chance to work with my partners and get a peek and so many different genres. Which is your favorite type of book to read.